To Dy [Dye] Blue

Title: To Dy [Dye] Blue
Date: 1694/1795
Description: This recipe gives instructions for creating a blue dye for wool, using logwood and verdigris.
Transcript: [inserted left margin: this will hand you to 5 pounds you may make it dy a pound] Take a quarter of a pound of log wood [y]n to Allom water the quarter & with one peny worth of Allom Must before the log wood be put in boyld a quarter of an houre the put in 3 quarters of a pound of wool & boyle in the log wood and Allom watter a quarter of an houre then take oute youre wool & put in to the dy 2 penyworth of verdigrece and the put in the wool a Gane & Smuther it Close [struck: then b[text loss]] then boyle Strong Chamberly & pore upon it. So lay it oute to Dry.

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Subject: See all items with this value plant dyes; See all items with this value urine; See all items with this value wool; See all items with this value logwood; See all items with this value alum; See all items with this value verdigris
Contributor: Ochsner, Elizabeth; Gerber, Steven; Le, Vincent; Grimm, Stephanie
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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